While NFL excitement peaks for Super Bowl week, a new report about CTE in players after...
Lorena Perez Sanchez cheers outside of Levi's stadium ahead of the NFC Championship game between the San Francisco 49ers and the Green Bay Packers on Sunday, Jan. 19, 2020 in Santa Clara, California.It’s that week. The one devoted to glorifying a football game. A good week to reflect on America’s continued obsession with this game and this league.
It’s as though we have all implanted a memory-erase chip that makes us forget what we know. We allow the NFL to repackage its controversies and problems into neat little bundles, like co-opting the social-justice push by painting End Racism in the end zones . We forget, we compartmentalize and we watch.
CTE hasn’t gone away. This week, findings of a Boston University CTE study were released, showing that almost 92% of the brains studied of former NFL players were diagnosed with CTE. Researchers said the results were in sharp contrast to the rate of CTE detected in the brains of the general public. Concussion protocols failed Tagovailoa. His injury originally was described as a back problem. The unaffiliated neurotrauma specialist who evaluated him was fired. There are now real questions about whether Tagovailoa should ever play football again. Can he be adequately protected?
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